118 COTTON IIST THE MADEAS PEESIDENCY. [3eD SEASON. 



B. A. p. £ s. d. 



Cost for Seed Cotton of six Podhees at Es. 

 7-10 (ISs. Zd.) per Podhee .. ..45 120 = 411 6 



Cost of labour for ginning, or separating the 

 Seed from the Cotton .. .. . . 7 9 6 = 15 2i 



Cost of cloth, sowing, packing, twine, and oil 



for gins . . 2 7 6 = 4 llf 



Total cost of 1700 lbs. of Seed Cotton . . 65 13 = 5 11 7J 



Deduct amount realized for Seed, Es. 1-6 



(2*. 9d.) . . 7 15 = 15 lOi 



Net cost of 370| lbs. of Clean Cotton, exclusive 



of Establishment and Superintendence .. 47 140 = 415 9 



Eate per candy of 500 lbs. of Cotton after de- 

 ducting amount realised for Seed .. ..64 90 = 6 9 li 



Net cost per lb. of Clean Cotton 3f 



\bOQd.) 



182 Necessity fijr improving the construction of the 

 Gin, — Upon the relative working of each of the gins, 

 Mr. Finnie's Mr. Finnie reported as follows. It will be 

 Sept^'ilw* remembered that he had two 25 saw gins, 

 rari.Eeturn and One of 20 saws. Each of the two 25 

 (I857),p.a79. gg^^, gj^g required thirteen nien a day to 

 work it; namely, two sets of sis men to turn the 

 wheel, and relieve each other alternately ; and one 

 man to attend to the gin, such as feeding it with seed 

 Cotton, and removing the staple freed after separation. 

 One gin however would clean 100 lbs. of seed Cotton 

 in one hour ; whilst the other would not clean the same 

 quantity under two hours. Then again the 20 saw 

 gin did almost as much work as the best 25 saw gin, 

 though it only required nine men to wort it ; namely, 

 one man for the gin, and eight men at the wheel ; the 

 latter relieving each other alternately in sets of four. 

 This last gin had been made by Mr. Petrie, and was 

 pronounced by Mr. Finnic to be the best he had seen 

 iii India. These facts served to show that much de- 

 pended on the construction of the machine, and that 

 further improvements might yet bring the giu into 

 constant and profitable use in India. 



